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They are organizing here,which is good,but could work against the unionist people.
I would agree that there is far to many Pro-Unionist parties standing in this Province, but on the other hand, majority Unionist areas like North Down, East Belfast proportionally have lower turn-outs than majority republican areas like Fermanagh-West Tyrone, South Armagh etc. So if this even gets some more of our own people more interested to vote and indeed more Roman Catholics, who would be worried about day to day issues like tax, health care etc, rather than constitutional issues would be more likely to vote for a party seen as a mainstream political party, rather than one of Ulster’s Unionist Parties. Although realistically, it will probably just divide our own vote even further, but the reality is there is tens of thousands of ordinary working class Protestants who just don’t vote, and the present political parties do nothing to win these people over, so may be a different alternative might be the answer, wither UKIP is that alternative I doubt it.
I also think in the long term it is good for Unionism, might cost us a few seats here and there, but in terms of propaganda, and a confidence boaster to our own community to have mainstream British political parties organising here and contesting elections. Gone are the days where we were deemed to be a backwater a place were our Country had no economic or vested interest in keeping Northern Ireland.
Things are slowly changing, Patterson even having the balls to meet Sinn Fein and republican relatives from Ballymurphy while wearing a wrist band in support of the Royal Irish in Afghanistan, well none of his predecessors in modern times would ever had dreamed a doing such a move.
